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Books published this year.

The Open Accounts of an Honesty Box by Julie Helean. Things are heating up in Central Otago. After lobbying unsuccessfully to get their desperately needed public toilet, the women of Easy give up on council, conspiring to build it themselves. There’s civic pride and strained bladders at stake. Luckily a visitor, Jinx, has just the right credentials to get them started.  The town’s unofficial mayoress, Martha, discovers that Jinx is a hard-to manage lesbian with a penchant for rule breaking of every kind. The fact that the building project proceeds without council permits, with an entrapped builder and using stolen materials, is just the start of the unfolding pandemonium. ISBN  978-1-86942-124-3  300 pages  $35

Livin' ina Aucklan' by Michael O'Leary. This is a funky little collection designed to capture the good things about Auckland in the 1980s offset against the feeling of loss and emptiness felt at the end of an intense love affair with the destruction of so many of the city’s older buildings. The idea of Mount Albert being just as important as Montmatre if you live there pervades the whole collection. The title Livin’ ina Aucklan' reflects the language of the streets and the whole project was a coming together of the way we lived in those days. This new edition includes a long more recent poem Auckland Revisited written in 2008. ISBN   978-1-86942-125-0  44 pages  $15

The Apple Tree and other stories by B E Turner. Half of a lifetime’s writing produced very few short pieces of fiction. Some have been lost and some are not considered acceptable to print. They were written at odd times are not a cohesive lot. They range in style from realism, through fantasy to absurdity. I hope the reader will find something of interest. ISBN   978-1-86942-126-7  72 pages  $20

The Random Web - Mini book 26 by Will Leadbeater. What guidance, unseen, shapes what appears to be the random web of our dream. ISBN  978-1-86942-127-4 24 pages  $5

Portrait Poems by Barry Southam. A collection of people sketches. Barry currently lives in his earthquake battered home town of Christchurch. While living in Auckland he acted in many television plays and films and was one of the early performance poets. He has had a variety of occupations, the most recent working in the field of mental health as a counsellor. He is the author of four books of poems and stories, as well as a number of radio and stage plays that have been produced locally and internationally. ISBN  978-1-86942-128-1 70 pages  $20

Portals by Robin Fry - Poetry When Thomas was eight/ we sat drawing together/ I am his grandmother.// The intricately decorated/ towers bordering his page/  are portals, he says.//  "Portals?" I ask/ "Yes – doorways – portals/ to other worlds." ISBN: 978-1-86942-131-1  40 pages Chapbook $15

Thinking Cap by Mark Pirie. Mark's latest collection of poetry consists of over 80 epigrams written over the past year. Following in the footsteps of New Zealand verse satirists like Denis Glover, Rex Fairburn, Karl Stead, Harry Ricketts, R G Park and Niel Wright, Pirie updates the New Zealand epigram in contemporary settings of pop culture and literature. Number 27 in the ESAW mini series. A6 24 pages.  ISBN 978-1-86942-130-4  $5.00

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